have a heart for beau and my friend rex. it s the holiday season. i thought rex was pretty doggone execute and so did many of our viewers of the program. doug stover of media matters e-mailed us this picture of his dog watching rex last night. he says, looks like ed gained another viewer. the blogs, they took it pretty nice, too. here s a headline. even glenn beck s website covered it. and fox nation is now aware there is a liberal watchdog out there. look out. although i m not sure where they got the idea that rex hates republicans, he just lets you beware, okay? he s just a little suspicious of the righties, that s all. well, we are happy to report that the good folks who have been caring for rex at the shawn casey animal rescue in new york got more than 100 phone calls from viewers wanting to adopt this beautiful pup.
to discuss the tea party mutiny. ron paul s newsletter scandal is exploding. rick perry is getting creepier in his ads and a gay robot invades a bachmann campaign spot. we ll try to make sense of it all. and rex, the liberal watchdog, is now a rising media star. we ll have an update on where he s spending christmas. good to have with you us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. the payroll tax fight was not just a victory for the democrats and president obama and 160 million americans. it may have started a civil war within the republican party. establishment republicans are blaming the tea party for being unreasonable. the tea party says that gop leaders simply are not doing their job. and polls show democrats are benefiting big time politically. president obama used the leverage to push for a full year extension of the tax cut. when congress returns, i urge them to keep moving forward without drama and without delay and reach an agreement that extends this tax cut as well
to discuss the tea party mutiny. ron paul s newsletter scandal is exploding. rick perry is getting creepier in his ads and a gay robot invades a bachmann campaign spot. we ll try to make sense of it all. and rex, the liberal watchdog, is now a rising media star. we ll have an update on where he s spending christmas. good to have with you us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. the payroll tax fight was not just a victory for the democrats and president obama and 160 million americans. it may have started a civil war within the republican party. establishment republicans are blaming the tea party for being unreasonable. the tea party says that gop leaders simply are not doing their job. and polls show democrats are benefiting big time politically. president obama used the leverage to push for a full year extension of the tax cut. when congress returns, i urge them to keep moving forward without drama and without delay and reach an agreement that extends this tax cut as well
mayor peters they report was having financial problems. they re investigating a series of notes left at the scene, but none of them explained why. and that is a question that the city of 40,000 is asking tonight. doug stoeffer is the former mayor of coppel. he joins us now by phone. thank you, doug, for joining us. listen, mayor peters succeeded you. and you were close friends. how could she be capable of this? jayne, as we all knew, was quite despondent over the loss of her husband. and we re only coming to find out about the financial despair she had in her life as well. and obviously she was depressed to a degree that no one had any idea about. do you think she just kept this depression to herself? she didn t share it with you or any friends? no, she didn t. jayne was the first person to reach out to people to help them. with their heart aches, with their tragedies, with their
because again, this was not the way that she lived. she was a good person. and there was a side of jayne that no one could have ever expected was contained inside of her. what about her legacy there? what kind of a mayor? she was a phenomenal mayor. she was very active in every community aspect that there was. from the municipality role, from an original perspective. she was an add vat for regional transportation, technology, and very well respected and very well liked. doug stover, thank you. we appreciate you joining us. we know you re grieving. thank you very much. the top stories on cnn. bp s testing of its new cap will continue for another 24 hours. it s already been under way for about 48 hours, with no oil leaking into the gulf of mexico. national incident commander thad